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Swarthmore Phœnix. Vol. IX. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, FIRST MONTH, 1890. No. 6 GUR readers will notice in this issue an article from the pen of President Magill, who is now in Paris. All our friends will be glad to learn that the President expects to contribute articles for the Phcenix from time to time during his stay in France. We also expect to publish during the year a series of articles by Professor Price, who is spending the Winter in Berlin. THE recent action of the Board of Managers in abolishing the Preparatory School is most commendable. Hereafter there will be but one class in addition to the four regular college classes. This will be known as the "Sub-Collegiate," and is intended to prepare students for the Freshman Class. It is with the greatest pleasure that we make this announcement,—an announcement which has been so eagerly desired, not only by the students, but also by the Alumni and friends of the college. For several years past this process has been going on, but the happy consummation lately brought about by the Managers was not expected quite so soon. Nevertheless the joy of the students is none the less pronounced. Swarthmore has met with a loss without sustaining any injury. Her career as a college unclogged by a preparatory school will begin next year, and if her past life of twenty years is any guide, it is not a difficult matter to prophesy for her future. It has long been felt that our preparatory department has been a great hinderance to the college, crippling to a certain degree its advancement, but for pecuniary reasons it would have been impracticable to have taken this action before. We notice also with pleasure the increasing desire of the Managers and Faculty to make the student's life and surroundings here more agreeable attractive, and to grant them more privileges, placing them upon their honor, teaching them to think for themselves, and thus making men and women of them instead of engraft- SWARTHMORE PH(ENIX. Published each Month during the College Year by the Students of Swarthmore College. v STAFF: EDITOR : JAMES W. PONDER, '90. ASSOCIATE EDITORS : Abby Mary Hall, '90. William C. Sproul, '91. Beui.ah W. Darlington,'9o. Francis E. Ottley, '90. « John W. Hutchinson,'9l. A. Mitchell Palmer, '91. Gertrude Hutchings, '92. Business Manager: Sam'l R. Lippincott, '90. Assisfdnt Business Manager: Wm. L. Donohugh, '92. !One Volume (9 mos.) . . $1.00 Single Copies, 15 Payable in Advance. Persons wishing to discontinue their subscriptions should notify us immediately. Contributions of matter are requested from all students of the College. Ex-members and "Graduates of the College will oblige us by keeping us informed of their whereabouts or of any other items of interest. Subscriptions and all other business communications should be addressed to the Business • Manager; contributions of matter to the Editor.—P. O. address, Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pa. Entered at the Post Office at Swarthmore as second-class matter.

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'9O. Alvan W. Atkinson, Wm. D. Lippincott, Richard C. Sellers. '9l. G. Wilmer Koser, Frederic E. Stone, Horace G. Vernon. '92. Henry B. Coles, Wm. L. Donohugh, Howard B. Green, Joseph J. Walker. '93. John L. Carver; ex-'95, Chas. D. White. '94. Allen R. White, Frederic H. Gawthrop, George G. Griest, Owen Moon, Jr., David B. Rushmore, Stuart Wilder, Daniel Underhill, Jr., Herman Conrow. '95. John A. Lafore, Samuel C. Palmer, Frank L. Price, Arthur H. Scott, G. Edmund StVattan, Howard White, Jr. '96. Howard C. Johnson, Charles Kaighn, J. Chauncey Shortlidge. '97. Marshall P. Sullivan, Arthur H. Walker.The following former members of Pi Kappa Omicron were unable to be present: 'S/Jlhomas Jenkins; 'B9. Justin K.. Anderson, Horace B. Forman; '9O. R. Barclay Spicer; '92. Howard N. Eavenson, Edward A. Jenkins, Henry McAllister, Jr.; '93. Francis E. Broomell; ex-'95. Samuel J. Entrikin. After the initiation,' the sixty-six members of the Fraternity present sat at the tables, and when the menu had been discussed, the toasts were responded to as follows: " Welcome to our Youngest," James L. Burley, Lehigh,'94; "the Baby," Allen K. White, Swarthmore, '94; "Delta Upsilon Principles in Life," Rev. Dr. John J. Love, Jr., Rochester, '6B; " Our Innocent Victims," J. Russell Smith, U. of P., '95 ; " Delta Upsilon, a League of Scholarship," Prof. James H. Robinson, Harvard, 'B9; " The Ladies," Francis C. Van Dyck, Jr., Rutgers, '94; " Delta Upsilon's Golden Age," George D. Knight, Colgate, '9l; " Delta "Upsilon and Citizenship," Hon. Charles W. Stone, Wiliams, '63 ; " The Fraternity in Pennsylvania," Russell H. McCullough, Lafayette, '95 ; " Foundation of the Fraternity," Elijah B. Sherman, Middlebury, '6O. The eloquence of the last speaker, Judge Sherman of Chicago, President of the Fraternity, was warmly applauded. The dignity of the occasion was greatly added to by the presence of several venerable Alumni of the J\ Fraternity, who, for half a century, have been members of the _J were present from/the Univ«csjty of New] York, Rutgers, Lehigh, University ~of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, University of Rochester, Tufts, Union, Middlebury, Williams, Columbia, Harvard, Lafayette, and Amherst. The Swarthmore Alumni, together with several members of the Fraternity from other institutions, visited the college on the day following. MY LAST CIGAR. [New Version.) 'Twas off the blue Canary Isles, a glorious summer day, I sat upon the quarter deck to whiff my cares away; And as the volumed smoke arose to spoil the pure sea air, I breathed a sigh to think I was a slave to my cigar. A slave to my cigar, a slave to my cigar, I breathed a sigh to think I Vas a slave to my cigar. I reckoned up the dimes that I had on this altar burned, The dollars that my servitude had into ashes turned ; I thought of stifling clouds of smoke I'd poured into the air, I vowed a vow that this should be, in truth, my last cigar. It was my last cigar—it was my last cigar, I vowed a vow that this should be, in truth, my last cigar. The sudden stings of sharp regret not vainly made me start, I thought how weak the pulses are of a " tobacco heart." I breathed a sigh of deep relief—the prospect it was fair, Since I had vowed that this should be, in truth, my last cigar. It was my last cigar—it was my last cigar, I breathed a sigh of deep relief—it was my last cigar. LOCALS. The Delphic-Eunomian inter-society contest was postponed until after the spring holidays on account of the absence from college of three members of the Eunomian team. On the evening of Third month Bth, Dr. Magill delivered his lecture on "Racine and 12 THE SWARTHMORE PHCENIX.

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Swarthmore Phœnix. Vol. IX. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, FIRST MONTH, 1890. No. 6 GUR readers will notice in this issue an article from the pen of President Magill, who is now in Paris. All our friends will be glad to learn that the President expects to contribute articles for the Phcenix from time to time during his stay in France. We also expect to publish during the year a series of articles by Professor Price, who is spending the Winter in Berlin. THE recent action of the Board of Managers in abolishing the Preparatory School is most commendable. Hereafter there will be but one class in addition to the four regular college classes. This will be known as the "Sub-Collegiate," and is intended to prepare students for the Freshman Class. It is with the greatest pleasure that we make this announcement,—an announcement which has been so eagerly desired, not only by the students, but also by the Alumni and friends of the college. For several years past this process has been going on, but the happy consummation lately brought about by the Managers was not expected quite so soon. Nevertheless the joy of the students is none the less pronounced. Swarthmore has met with a loss without sustaining any injury. Her career as a college unclogged by a preparatory school will begin next year, and if her past life of twenty years is any guide, it is not a difficult matter to prophesy for her future. It has long been felt that our preparatory department has been a great hinderance to the college, crippling to a certain degree its advancement, but for pecuniary reasons it would have been impracticable to have taken this action before. We notice also with pleasure the increasing desire of the Managers and Faculty to make the student's life and surroundings here more agreeable attractive, and to grant them more privileges, placing them upon their honor, teaching them to think for themselves, and thus making men and women of them instead of engraft- SWARTHMORE PH(ENIX. Published each Month during the College Year by the Students of Swarthmore College. v STAFF: EDITOR : JAMES W. PONDER, '90. ASSOCIATE EDITORS : Abby Mary Hall, '90. William C. Sproul, '91. Beui.ah W. Darlington,'9o. Francis E. Ottley, '90. « John W. Hutchinson,'9l. A. Mitchell Palmer, '91. Gertrude Hutchings, '92. Business Manager: Sam'l R. Lippincott, '90. Assisfdnt Business Manager: Wm. L. Donohugh, '92. !One Volume (9 mos.) . . $1.00 Single Copies, 15 Payable in Advance. Persons wishing to discontinue their subscriptions should notify us immediately. Contributions of matter are requested from all students of the College. Ex-members and "Graduates of the College will oblige us by keeping us informed of their whereabouts or of any other items of interest. Subscriptions and all other business communications should be addressed to the Business • Manager; contributions of matter to the Editor.—P. O. address, Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pa. Entered at the Post Office at Swarthmore as second-class matter.